Uyuni (Aymara, uyu pen (enclosure), yard, cemetery,[2]-ni a suffix to indicate ownership, "the one that has got a pen", "the one with a pen") is a city in the southwest of Bolivia.
Uyuni primarily serves as a gateway for tourists visiting the world's largest salt flats, the nearby Uyuni salt flat. Each year the city receives approximately 60,000[citation needed] visitors from around the globe. The city also acts as a gateway for commerce and traffic crossing into and out of Bolivia from and to Chile, and there is a customs and immigration post downtown. Agriculture in the area is generally limited to quinoa, llamas, and sheep.[3][4]
Founded in 1890 as a trading post, the city has a population of 29,672 (2012 official census).[1] The town has an extensive street-market. It lies at the edge of an extensive plain at an elevation of 3,700 m (12,139 ft) above sea level, with more mountainous country to the east.
^ ab"Ficha Resúmen Censo de Poblacion y Vivienda 2012". Resultados Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda. Instituto Nacional de Estadística. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
^Ludovico Bertonio, Aymara-Spanish dictionary (Transcription): Uyu - Cerca o corral o cementerio
^Kerssen, Tanya M. (27 Apr 2015). "Food sovereignty and the quinoa boom: challenges to sustainable re-peasantisation in the southern Altiplano of Bolivia". Third World Quarterly. 36 (3: Food Sovereignty: convergence and contradictions, condition and challenges): 489–507. doi:10.1080/01436597.2015.1002992. S2CID 153909114.
^"La quinua principal cultivo del municipio de Uyuni". Instituto Nacional de Estadística. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
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